Pi-stacking device for typographical machines.



N. DODGE. m sTAcKmG 1mm FOB TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINES.

APPLIGATION FILED OCT. 7, 1911.

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3 van tom N. DODGE. PI STACKI-NG DEVICE FOR TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINES.

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N. DODGE. PI STAOKING DEVICE run TYPOGRAPHiGAL MACHINES.

APPLIOATIOH FILED OUT. 7, 1911.

Patented N0v.18, 1913.

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N. DODGE. PI STAGKING DEVICE FOR TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINES APPLIOATIOIN FILED 001:. P1, 1911.

Patented Nov. 18, 1913;

4 SHEETS-SHEET 4- FICE NORMAN DODGE, OF EAST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR T0 MERGENTH-ALER LINOTYPE COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

lI-STACKING DEVICE FOR TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINES.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, NORMAN DODGE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of East Orange, county of Essex, and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pi-Stacking Devices for Typographical Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to ty ographical machines, and more particular y-to that class thereof known to the public under the name linotype and as illustrated for instance in Letters Patent of the United States to O. Mergenthaler, No. 436,532. In machines of this type it is the common practice to make use of matrices representing characters other than those controlled by the key board. These extra or sorts matrices are inserted by hand into the matrix-line in the course ofcom osition, and-are subsequently delivered by t e distributer at a common point, from which ordinarily they descend by gravity through a. receiving tube into a pi-stick or receptacle at the front of the machine. Such a mechanism, generally speaking, is old in the art and is shown in Letters Patent of the United States to J. R. Rogers, No.

. 630,112. In the more advanced and refined practice, machines have been devised wherein are employed a plurality of movable or adjustable magazines, any one of which may be.brought int-o operative position with reference to the key-board and distributing mechanism at will. Such a plurality of magazines is intended to provide a larger and more varied assortment of characters, which in turn may be again supplemented by the employment of additional or sorts matrices that are more rarely used and are not contained within the magazines or represented by the key-board. These sorts correspond more or less in face or style to the particular face or style carried by the magazine in operative position, and it is therefore desirable that they should be segregated in the same way that the primary matrices in the magazine are To this end, therefore, I provide a plurality of pi-stacking devices in combination with automatic means whereby the appropriate one will be brought into operative position, so that the sorts appertaining to each magazine will be received in a separate sticker receptacle, and will be readily available to are compositor without the necessity of Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 7, 1911. Serial No. 653,443.

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Patented Nov. 18. 1913.

searching through a mixed mass thereof to discover the particular face or style desired.

My invention may be specifically applied in a variety of different forms, and in the accompanyingdrawings I have illustrated three distinct embodiments thereof. Generally speaking, I desire it to be understood that I do not limit myself to any specific form or embodiment except in so far as such limitations may be specified in the claims.

The particular machine in connection with which I have shown my invention is that set forth in the application of John R. R0- gers for Letters Patent, No. 624,426, filed May 1, 1911, wherein is disclosed a plurality of movable magazines together with a r prop'riate mechanism for selecting and shi ting themand for locking them in adjusted position.

Referring to the drawings: Figure 1 is a side view of the lower ends of the shiftable magazines with my invent-ion applied thereto, partly broken away to show the o erative parts more clearly; Fig. 2 is a front View thereof; Fig. 3 is a side view illustrating another form of my invention; and

Fig. 4 is a side view of-a third embodiment.

The magazines A, A A are mounted in the frame A, and are or may be shifted and held in operative relation to the other parts in the manner described in the said Rogers application, these particular adjusting and locking devices constituting no part of my present invention. As will be understood by those skilled in the art, the matrices representing characters otherthan those controlled by the key-board are inserted by hand into the matrix-line in the course of composition, and are automatically delivered by the distributer at a common point, as set forth, for example, in the Letters Patent to P. T. Dodge, No. 539,985. The particular form of the distributing devipes also constitutes no part of the present invention and needs no specific description herein. Fig. 1, however, shows in dotted lines the ends of the distributing screws B, whereby.

the sorts matrices are delivered into. the tube C, through which they pass into a sorts stick or receptacle inconvenient proximity to the compositor. lnthe present instance three such sticks or receptacles A, A, and A are illustrated,-each of them provided with the customary feeding or star-wheel F,.which is rotated by a belt G, in substantially the same manner as set forth in the Rogers patent, No. 630,112.

In the form illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, the pi-sticks or receptacles A A and A, are-stationary, and a single delivering means is employed in connection therewith, in the form of the movable flexible tube C, which is caused to register and connect with one or the other of the sticks or receptacles according to the positionot the magazines. The

lower end of the tube G is mounted in a swinging arm D pivoted at E to the stationary machine frame, the position of the arm being controlled by the link H connected thereto and to the elbowdever H, which in turn is connected to the magazineframe A. As shown in the drawing, the magazine 1 is in operative position and the tube C registers with or receptacle A. When the frame A is raised, as shown in dotted lines, to bring the magazine A into operative position, through the connections previously described, the tube C is swung to the leftso as to register with the corresponding stick or receptacle 1 Similarly, when the frame A is lowered, as shown in dotted lines, to bring the magazine A into operative'position, the tube C is swung to the right so as to register with the corresponding stick or receptacle A. Each of the sticks or re ceptacles is formed with a notch 5 adapted to engage the spring-pressed detent D on the arm D and thus to hold the tube 0 in proper adjusted relation.

Fig. 3 illustrates a somewhat similar arrangement, wherein, however, the member D is formed with a projecting arm L carrying a roll L, which is held by a spring llfl in engagement with a cam piece K. connected to the frame A. As the frame A is moved, and through the connections described, the member D, and hence the bottom or the flexible tube C, is brought into registration with the corresponding stick or receptacle substantially in the manner previously described. The cam pie 2 K is formed with cuts or notches K to hold, themember D in proper adjusted relation to the other parts,

In l 1 have illustrated still another type, wherein the tube is stationary and the sticks or receptacles are adjusted in relation. thereto. In this instance, thethree sticks A Ai A1113 are slidably mounted. and

are connected by link N elbow-lever N, link N and lever N, to the magazine-frame, in such manner that the shifting of the mag. azines and their frame effects the sin'iultaneous adjustment of the sticks or receptacles so as to bring the'corresponding one into proper relation to the tube C. it is to be noted that in this instance, the receptacles are reversed in position as compared with the form illustratedin Figs. 1 and 2, dil

the corresponding stick.

ference arising from the fact that the sticns are moved instead of the tube. This arrangement also renders desirable a slightly different means for rotating the feeding or star-wheels, the lower one being actuated by the band G and the two upper ones by the band G driven. from the lower one.

It will be seen that in all three forms I have illustrated a plurality of pietaclring devices, which are automatically controlled, so that each will be brought into operative position in relation to its corresponding magazine. Obviously many other variations and modifications will suggc t themselves to those skilled in the witl' int from the spirit or scope of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, its construction and mode of operation, what l. claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent or" the United Estates is as follows:

1. In a typographical machine, the combination. of aplurality of movable magazines, a corresponding plurality or" adjustable pistacking devices, and connections whereby the movement of the magazines efiects the adjustment of the pi stacking devices.

2. In a typographical machine, the combination of a plurality of movable magazines, 2. corresponding plurality of movable pisticlrs or receptacles, and connections whereby the movement of the magazines effects the movement of the said sticks or receptacles.

' 3. In a typographical machine, the combination oi a plurality of movable magazines, aplurality of adjustable pi-stacln'ng devices, and connections whereby the movement of any selected magazine to operative position eilects the similar adjustment of the corre-.

sponding pistaclring devices.

a. in a typographical machine, the combination or" a plurality 01" magazines, a corre sponding plurality of adjustable pistaclring devices, and means whereby a selected magazine may be brought into operative relation to the other parts and a corresponding pistacking device simultaneously adjusted.

5. In a typographical machine, the combination of a plurality of magazines, and a corresponding plurality of adjustable pistaclring devices, comprising a plurality 0r.

pi-sticks or receptacles and a common means for delivering the type or matrices thereto, with means whereby a selected magazine may be brought into operative relationto the other parts and simultaneously the corresponding stick or receptacle connected to the common delivering means.

6. In a typographical machine, the combination of a plurality otmagazines, a corresponding plurality of l djustable pi-sticks or receptacles, a common means for delivering type or matrices thereto, and'means whereby the sticlrs or receptacles are shifted to bring any one of them into relatimx t0 the common delivery means when the wrr-espnnding 1:12:15; mine is brought into opemt-ive reimion to Hie other parts.

'7. In a typographical machine, the combi" naizlsn of a plurality of movable magazines, a cnrl'espondir"; plurality of pi-receptaclcs, and means whereby, when elected Image zinc is moved intopperatiw positien, the

corresponding pi receptacle is; cmm'ected 10 iaherw ith.

In testimony whereof I hereunt a set my hand this fifth day of Ocfio ber, 3.911, in the presence of two attesting witnesses NORMAN RQDGE.

Witnesses J. LAMB, WALTER MOBLARI).

Washington, 33. F3.

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